Vacantes en Soweto, United States

NACOSA is looking for suitably qualified candidates to fill the Team Leader position in and around Cape Town to oversee and coordinate the effective and efficient implementation of group-based interventions by Community Facilitators in accordance with allocated targets, including tasks such as supporting logistical arrangements, coordinating, and reviewing reporting activities.

Job Description

Born out of a national convention to draft the first national strategic plan for AIDS, NACOSA is now a leading national civil society organisation working collectively to build stronger, more equal, and healthy communities free from the burden of HIV. We do this by strengthening community systems, mobilising and managing resources, facilitating networking and collaborations, providing and enabling access to services, and advocating, learning, and sharing widely.

NACOSA works at all levels across the country – from international donor agencies, the corporate sector, and national government, right through to sub-district services and small, community groups. Strengthening Community systems for NACOSA focuses on building networks for Community Based Organisations and Community Leadership.

The Team Leader Role

The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, Aids-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) programme provides a comprehensive package of core interventions to address key factors that make adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) particularly vulnerable to HIV. These include structural factors, such as gender-based violence, exclusion from economic opportunities, and a lack of access to secondary school. DREAMS layers multiple interventions at once so that AGYW are surrounded with critical support to keep them safe from HIV and other risks.

The Team Leader position will support and deliver on NACOSA’s USAID funded Community-based Violence Prevention and Linkages to Response in SA Programme. This HIV and GBV Prevention Programme focuses on delivering evidence-based group interventions to adolescent girls and young women and adolescent boys and young men (aged 15-19 and 20-24 years). It further focuses on linkages and layering to secondary interventions services such as post-violence care services to survivors who disclose, sexual reproductive health services, family strengthening, and economic strengthening interventions.

Team Leaders will support the implementation of the No Means No Self-defense intervention, Sexual Reproductive Health, Financial Literacy, linkages and layering, as well as mentoring intervention in 6 Health Sub-Districts of the Cape Metro.

Duties and Responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities of the Team Leader will include, but are not limited to:

• Support the Program Coordinator to lead the team to implement and execute targeted demand creations, mobilization, recruitment, and enrolment activities.
• Plan and execute weekly facilitation of EBIs to relevant target populations by community facilitators.
• Support the Program Coordinator in safe space and stakeholder/partner mapping, maintenance of a database of stakeholders and their services/focus areas (DREAMS and non-DREAMS partners), support successful referrals and bi-directional linkages of DREAMS primary and secondary interventions.
• Perform first line data completeness checks and submit data on behalf of the team; assist the Program Coordinator to collect team output data for the compilation of reports.
• Support Team Planning and assist in submitting individual team member plans to the Program Officer on a weekly basis; submit requests for procurement and logistics on behalf of the team; record and track stock/equipment issued to the team.

Job Requirements

Required qualifications, skills, and experience

• Post Matric Qualification preferred.
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in leading direct implementation teams working in the HIV prevention field in a target-driven program.
• Related work experience in the health and social development sectors, preferably in the field of AGYW and/or survivors of sexual violence is advantageous.
• Experience in direct implementation planning, logistical support, and basic data collection/completeness checks is important.
• Well-established community/stakeholder relationship building track record/ability to network and navigate communities.
• Knowledge about HIV prevention, sexual and reproductive health; HIV Testing Services; GBV programming; evidence-informed and rights-based programming for survivors of GBV, particularly for adolescent girls and young women.
• Excellent communication skills in English and any other South African Language.
• Ability to work well in a team environment, person-centered; possess leadership skills and qualities and be proactive.
• Good computer skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) with experience of web-based data systems.
• Problem-solving skills and ability to think on your feet.
• Must be highly organized and deadline-driven.
• Ability to work as a team member within multi-disciplinary teams.